medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.31.20185215; this version posted September 2, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Dealing with Covid-19 infections in Kolkata, India: A GIS based risk analysis and implications 2 for future scenarios 3 4 Bibhash Nath1, Santanu Majumder2, Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman3, Jayanta Sen4 5 6 1 Department of Geography, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NY 10021, 7 USA 8 2 Department of Geology & Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, 9 United States 10 3 Global Centre for Environmental Remediation (GCER), Faculty of Science and Information 11 Technology, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia 12 4 Department of Economics, West Bengal State University, Kolkata, West Bengal 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 *Corresponding author: Bibhash Nath, e-mail:
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